After a torrential summer rainstorm 50032 (yet to be named)

hammers eastwards past Woodborough signal box with a Paddington Express. This image shows evidence of things to come. Notice the recently constructed relay room to the left and various other rationalisation works taking place. The West of England MAS programme was in full flow and this box was in its final year of operation. However, interestingly the relief lines remained and have actually been added to making it a short four-track section complete with other refuge sidings. Notice the distinctively bright yellow British Rail Leyland crew truck and, parked behind it, the signalman's Austin Allegro estate. Finally, glance away from the railway to the fields behind, notice the line of dead elm tress that had been killed by Dutch elm disease that had totally blighted the West Country landscape.